Q 01/05

In which year was Mariah Carey born?

A) 1969

B) 1971

C) 1973

D) 1975

Answer · why

A) 1969

She was born in Huntington on Long Island, the youngest of three children of an opera-singer mother and an aeronautical-engineer father.

Q 02/05

Mariah Carey's first name comes from a song in which Broadway musical?

A) Oklahoma!

B) Paint Your Wagon

C) South Pacific

D) Carousel

Answer · why

B) Paint Your Wagon

'They Call the Wind Maria' comes from the 1951 show; her surname was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather.

Q 03/05

What vocal range is Mariah Carey famous for?

A) Five octaves

B) Six octaves

C) Seven octaves

D) Eight octaves

Answer · why

A) Five octaves

Her whistle-register high notes are her trademark, though she has described her natural voice as an alto.

Q 04/05

Which nickname have the Recording Academy and Guinness World Records given Carey?

A) The Voice

B) The Elusive Chanteuse

C) Queen of Pop

D) Songbird Supreme

Answer · why

D) Songbird Supreme

Rolling Stone ranked her the fifth-greatest singer of all time in 2023.

Q 05/05

Which record executive discovered Carey after she handed him a demo tape at a party in 1988?

A) Tommy Mottola

B) Clive Davis

C) L.A. Reid

D) Quincy Jones

Answer · why

A) Tommy Mottola

He heard it in his car, turned around to find her, and then spent two weeks tracking her down; they married in 1993.

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